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...President of the A. M. A. is Dr. Dean De Witt Lewis, wealthy Baltimore (Johns Hopkins) surgeon, elected last year. Elected last week to be president for 1934-35 was Dr. Walter Lawrence Bierring. 64, rich Des Moines internist, able diagnostician, a descendant of Vitus Jonassen Bering for whom Bering Strait was named. Dr. Bierring reads, writes and fondly speaks Danish, German, French. His polyglot library is one of Des Moines' most extensive. He takes a brief case full of books on his frequent lecture tours of Iowa, reads as his chauffeur drives him between communities. Des Moines hostesses...
...waited for the store to open, a coupe drew up behind them, then sped away. Mailloux smelled smoke, ran to the rear of the truck, found a sizzling bomb planted in the shirts. He grabbed it, hurled it to the sidewalk. It landed at the feet of Bystander Bernard Witt, exploded, blew him into the air, broke...
Senator Carey's best witness was Major General John Lesesne De Witt, in charge of the Quartermaster Corps. He said that the Be Vier product had been turned down by the Army, that he had cautioned Director Fechner against it. It seemed to him that what was good enough for soldiers was good enough for forestry workers on the dole. He variously estimated that the army could have bought the $1.40 Be Vier kit for 42?, 75?, at the most...
...Such losses for tax purposes were legal but in the hue & cry last week retiring U. S. Attorney General William De Witt Mitchell (no kin) promptly launched a probe into this and other Mitchellisms...
Anyone who is interested in knowing more about the Harvard Inquiry is asked to get in touch with M. F. English, Eliot House I-52, W. S. Salant, Winthrop C-42, or myself at Dunster House G-21. John De Witt Norton...